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Related: About this forumParts Of Florida Will Be Uninhabitable Within The Term Of A 30-Year Mortgage Signed Today
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To consider the risk in present investments is beyond sobering. By the middle of this century most of the barrier islands of south Florida and the world will be abandoned and the people relocated, while low areas such as Sweetwater and Hialeah bordering the Everglades will be frequently flooded and increasingly difficult places to live.
Florida will start to lose its freshwater resources, its infrastructure will begin to fail, and the risk of catastrophic storm surges and hurricane flooding will increase. Florida counties should be planning for their future to determine at what point the costs of maintaining functional infrastructure, insurance, and human health and safety becomes economically impossible.
Already, there are areas and properties that will become unlivable within a 30-year mortgage cycle. The Four-county Compact on climate change in southeast Florida has some 1,200 action items to help ensure some stability for the communities there.
For south Florida, forget the levees and dikes. That may be fine for New Orleans and the Netherlands, but not here where the limestone and sand under our homes is much too porous and permeable. For each day action is put off, it becomes harder and more expensive to make the inevitable changes required. Without planning, there will come a point where society will collapse into chaos.
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http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2421248/floridas_collapse_will_set_in_within_a_30year_mortgage_cycle.html
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(25,966 posts)hunter
(38,303 posts)Time's coming soon when cities washed into the sea will be so common CNN won't bother sending anyone out to cover it. It will be Celebrity News Network, 24/7.
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pscot
(21,024 posts)vast amounts of wealth. If Piketty is right that should have a leveling effect counter to the tendency of capital to accumulate in fewer hands. George Soros and his neighbors in South Hampton are trying to stave off bluff erosion that threatens some very expensive housing. Of course if GG is right and six out of seven of us die, that would have a similar effect.
Leme
(1,092 posts)it may rise from beneath.
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Nihil
(13,508 posts)Anything that helps the public to wake up to the truth is good.
voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)Let me know when Keys property becomes affordable. Stilt house anyone?